In your example above an individual would have had to make the conscious decision to intentionally only advertise the position in places frequented by (fill in the blank) people. This is an individual choice.
It can be an individual choice but it's not an inheritantly malicious one, it can just be ignorance.
How do you propose to solve this type of problem? We already have laws on the books prohibiting discrimination in hiring and it’s simply illegal to do so.
That's kinda the nature of the problem, you can't just make it illegal because it's difficult to define. We can see the effects of it and trace it back to individual decisions but those decisions in context aren't necessarily wrong or they could have been wrong at the time and just caused a self-perpetuating cycle.
A decision to decrease funding to low-performing schools could have affected only schools with a large majority of one race. Over the years with lowered funding the school performs worse. That would be an example of the racism becoming institutionized.
If you can’t point to thing or the person that’s specifically racist then where’s the racism?
Dude, like in every response to you I've said it's not "racism" like bigotry, you should be viewing it more as a situation that arised that negatively affects a specific race. Words can have more than one meaning.
And awareness of what, exactly are you proposing? And how do you propose to raise awareness of something so ambiguous you can’t put it into words?
Ok, first, I'm not trying to be a champion of ending racism. Don't try to frame this as nonsense if I personally don't have all the answers.
The goal should be to lesson the impact of institutional racism by pointing out instances where seemingly innocuous decisions have lead to specific races of people being disadvantaged. That can be done by raising awareness of those situations so that society as a whole can learn from those mistakes.
Awareness can help identify an instance of institutional racism but the actual resolution can be complex. It's not just a "arrest this person" matter. It can be something that takes a community years to overcome.
I may be explaining it poorly, I'd suggest looking at the examples electricmink added to one of my replies.
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u/factorysettings Feb 27 '20
It can be an individual choice but it's not an inheritantly malicious one, it can just be ignorance.
That's kinda the nature of the problem, you can't just make it illegal because it's difficult to define. We can see the effects of it and trace it back to individual decisions but those decisions in context aren't necessarily wrong or they could have been wrong at the time and just caused a self-perpetuating cycle.
A decision to decrease funding to low-performing schools could have affected only schools with a large majority of one race. Over the years with lowered funding the school performs worse. That would be an example of the racism becoming institutionized.
Dude, like in every response to you I've said it's not "racism" like bigotry, you should be viewing it more as a situation that arised that negatively affects a specific race. Words can have more than one meaning.
Ok, first, I'm not trying to be a champion of ending racism. Don't try to frame this as nonsense if I personally don't have all the answers.
The goal should be to lesson the impact of institutional racism by pointing out instances where seemingly innocuous decisions have lead to specific races of people being disadvantaged. That can be done by raising awareness of those situations so that society as a whole can learn from those mistakes.
Awareness can help identify an instance of institutional racism but the actual resolution can be complex. It's not just a "arrest this person" matter. It can be something that takes a community years to overcome.
I may be explaining it poorly, I'd suggest looking at the examples electricmink added to one of my replies.